Yeast Of The Week Club

Attention MHBA Club Members: As our club continues to grow and change, we continue to look for ways to add value to our members. We recently (ok last night) had a discussion about yeast and the general consensus is that yeast ranching is time consuming, costs a few dollars, and growing an adequate quantity of healthy yeast is always a challenge especially for the brewers that brew big beers (you know who you are). We also discovered that commercial brewers share, swap, and toss more viable yeast than we could ever utilize. Now if you put these two criteria together (one man's junk is another man's treasure), you have the start of "THE MHBA YEAST OF THE WEEK CLUB." Details need to be worked out. A short side meeting is in order to determine the when's where, who's etc., but the process in general may work like this: Each week, we deliver a clean cornie to Town Hall. Around Wednesday, they skim yeast and fill our cornie and return it to the fridge. Later that afternoon or the next day, a selected MHBA member picks up the cornie and brings it to a pre-determined location where it can freely be shared. Active club members would be able to visit each week and take away as much viable yeast as they could possibly use. Many of their week-end brews would finish by Monday!!! The cultures will vary but there will be some standard ales, belgian, lager, and some very interesting yeasts. OK, some details need to be worked out but your suggestions, ideas, and responses are appreciated. Please send your responses to my home address (mnbrewing(a)earthlink.net) or post them to mba(a)thebarn.com Thanks in advance - home this sparks some interest. Rick Oftel MHBA Member at Large